Mount Mercer is a locality in the Western District of the

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Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital * Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...

. It is named after a nearby

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with

crater A crater is a landform consisting of a hole or depression (geology), depression on a planetary surface, usually caused either by an object hitting the surface, or by geological activity on the planet. A crater has classically been described ...

. The

was developed on a broad lava shield and the rim of the cone is asymmetric, being higher around the south and open towards the north. The

is approximately 400m in diameter and of circular shape. It is sufficiently enclosed to contain a swamp and has been partly excavated for a

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. It stands approximately 75m above the surrounding area.Corangamite eruption points
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's larger

wind farms A wind farm, also called a wind park or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turbines covering an exten ...

, the

Mount Mercer Wind Farm The Mount Mercer Wind Farm is located at Mount Mercer, Victoria, Mount Mercer approximately 30 kilometres south of Ballarat in Western Victoria (Australia), Victoria on 2600ha. The wind farm consists of 64 REpower MM92 wind turbines, giving a t ...

became fully operational in September 2014.

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Towns in Victoria (state) Golden Plains Shire {{GrampiansAU-geo-stub